A two-day-old girl in Palakkad, Kerala was flushed down a toilet and recovered when plumbers tried to clear the clogged passage. On Friday morning, Dr Abdul Rehman – who runs the clinic next to his house – noticed obstruction in the toilet bowl and called the plumber. To the horror of the plumbers as they tried to unblock the toilet, they noticed something which looked like a ball. As they pulled it out, they were shocked to see a baby’s head pop up. The body of a newborn and her placenta still attached was stuck in the duct.

On Thursday, the house maid, who came to clean the bathroom, noticed water clogging in the toilet attached to the consulting clinic. As informed by the maid, Abdul Rehman called in the plumbers to clean the toilet commode. On Friday afternoon, as the plumbers were cleaning the toilet, they noticed a head of the infant which was stuck in duct. Abdul Rehman immediately informed the local police which rushed to the spot and recovered the body.

The doctor filed a complaint and a case of unnatural death was filed. Police sources told NDTV, “Investigations are underway. We are analysing the records, but we haven’t been able to identify her parents yet.” Meanwhile, her body has been sent to Thrissur medical college for post-mortem. The police suspect that her parents brought the girl to the clinic on pretext of consultation and flushed the baby down the toilet. However, as the placenta was intact, the mother could have delivered her inside the washroom. The records of all the patients are being checked, a police officer said.

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